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Another new station about 45 minutes ago (heard in Ellensburg, new to Yakima)

12:30PM - 88.3 KPRH Montrose, CO (NEW #718, 3.5KW, 866mi) with Here & Now from NPR, mention of Colorado Symphony Orchestra and 'CPR' ID.
A weak 92.3 with country music also faded up, probably KMOZ Grand Junction.
 
New Catch this morning. KJOQ Duluth, MN on 1490. On top for the better most of a half hour commencing at 5am CDT. Religious sermon. Did NOT get a positive ID, but ev3erything fits online info inluding "Worship 24/7" branding. 362 miles C. Crane Skywace oriented northwest.
 
New Catch this morning. 4:45am CDT. Actually a new old one. To explain...

WJNL from Kingsley, MI. 1210khz. Actually this is the new incarnation of the old WKNX from Saginaw, MI. Which went dark a couple of decades ago, and eventually resurfaced in the northwest part of Michigan's lower peninsula. 50kw non directional, 2.5kw Critical Hours. I'm not sure which of those they were using, but my guess is 2.5kw. (They're supposed to be a daytimer. but they simulcast sister station WJML/1110, which is fulltime. Anyway, whatever the power, the signal was strong enough to be steady and on top of WPHT. Distance 262 miles. C. Crane Skywave.

I hzd heard WKNX a few times before around sunset, and also on daytime skywave. I'm surprised I hadn't heard WJNL until this morning.
 
Nice catch on WJNL. Back in Dec. 2020, I got both WJNL and WJML one evening when something went haywire in their automation and both ran the Michigan State Radio Network barker audio, "This is the ...." every 10 seconds, for hours. WJNL was operating that night on the theory that it's always daytime somewhere.
 
cyberdad said:
New Catch this morning. 4:45am CDT. Actually a new old one. To explain...

WJNL from Kingsley, MI. 1210khz. Actually this is the new incarnation of the old WKNX from Saginaw, MI. Which went dark a couple of decades ago, and eventually resurfaced in the northwest part of Michigan's lower peninsula. 50kw non directional, 2.5kw Critical Hours. I'm not sure which of those they were using, but my guess is 2.5kw. (They're supposed to be a daytimer. but they simulcast sister station WJML/1110, which is fulltime. Anyway, whatever the power, the signal was strong enough to be steady and on top of WPHT. Distance 262 miles. C. Crane Skywave.

I hzd heard WKNX a few times before around sunset, and also on daytime skywave. I'm surprised I hadn't heard WJNL until this morning.
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Nice catch. I had heard WKNX a few times many years ago.
 
Not DX, but looks like local pest WMFN AM 640 switched from Spanish language programming to BIN (Black Information Network) programming. Signal seems weaker, unless it's just a bad internet feed that makes it seem so.
 
CADXER said:
Not DX, but looks like local pest WMFN AM 640 switched from Spanish language programming to BIN (Black Information Network) programming. Signal seems weaker, unless it's just a bad internet feed that makes it seem so.
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Yep, it has. Just heard the slogan, “Chicago’s BIN 640.” Don’t know if it’s an ownership change, affiliation, time buy or something else. I’m maybe 25 miles from the four-tower array so still sounds strong.
 
CADXER said:
Not DX, but looks like local pest WMFN AM 640 switched from Spanish language programming to BIN (Black Information Network) programming. Signal seems weaker, unless it's just a bad internet feed that makes it seem so.
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Noticed that just yesterday. Thanks for sharing.
 
HUGE Es opening in progress, 2 meter MUF TX to FL and now a Nevada DXer has heard Easy 93.1 MIAMI 2300 MILE DOUBLE HOP!!!
Anyone in SE US check radios now!!
 
First e-skip logs for this season today:

88.1 KGNZ Abilene, TX - 1332 CDT
88.3 KPAC San Antonio, TX - 1332 CDT
89.5 KLUX Robstow, TX - 1401 CDT

QTH: Wood Dale, IL
Sangean HDT-20 with Radio Shack outdoor FM antenna
 
Nothing new on MW, it's been iffy recently. I did hear XEPE with a talk / interview show, almost alone on the channel (1700 khz), with slight audio from some music station (still unreadable, though).. XEPE was about S2 or so, but steady. The weird thing is that some nights or early mornings it's in, others it's just static or very weak ranchero music, probably KLIF in Dallas. If XEPE are in well, during overnights they play a lot of 80s pop that is all over the map.... some rarities. I guess that music is popular in Mexico? The station, Heraldo Radio, is based out of the Distrito Federal.
 
A weak KAHE-95.5 Dodge City KS around 7:30PM tonight with Tears for Fears song // playlist. Meanwhile, there was a monster opening just out of my reach (%$@&!!!) It reached the 162 MHZ NOAA WEATHER BAND, NV-MN!! A friend in Manhattan KS picked up KPQ-102.1 Wenatchee, KHTR-104.3 Pullman and KWRL-102.3 La Grande while I drove around listening to a dead band. Ugh. Next time.
 
boombox4 said:
If XEPE are in well, during overnights they play a lot of 80s pop that is all over the map.... some rarities. I guess that music is popular in Mexico? The station, Heraldo Radio, is based out of the Distrito Federal.
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The US and British hits that were popular in the US are not always the same as those that were big in Latin America.

Best example: my Top 40 station in Ecuador could have easily done without the Beatles. But don't take away the Stones or, particularly, CCR.

Even in Puerto Rico, USA, the Top 40 songs of the 60's, 70's and 80's excluded lots of "big" mainland songs. Harder rock did not work, really, really "white" stuff like the Cowsills did not work, and overly Black like James Brown did not work either.

Oh, and the "Distrito Federal" is no longer called that. It is a separate political jurisdiction now called the Ciudad de México.
 
Some tropo going on tonight in the Midwest. Edinburgh IN Global Tuners revealed 106.7 WPPN Des Plaines IL and 105.5 WZSR Woodstock IL.
Much better on the eastern end of the path. A DXer near Akron OH heard St. Louis FMs WIPING OUT his locals!
 


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